{"id":28,"date":"2004-06-08T23:05:18","date_gmt":"2004-06-09T04:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/?p=28"},"modified":"2004-06-08T23:05:18","modified_gmt":"2004-06-09T04:05:18","slug":"power-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/?p=28","title":{"rendered":"Power Outage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My wife is out of town for work this week so it is just me and the dogs.  I just finished watching the weather on KARE 11 TV and their chief meteorologist was showing the current doppler radar image.  It showed a line of thunderstorms moving into our area.  There was nothing severe predicted, but lots of rain, thunder, and lightning.  About 20 minutes after that, there was a big lightning flash and then the lights went out.  They&#8217;ve been out for about 20 minutes now.  Fortunately, I have battery powered emergency light in the front entry and a rechargeable flashlight in the kitchen. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m now upstairs, laying in bed with a couple of candles burning, a couple of lightsticks glowing, and a partially charged laptop battery.  Hopefully the power will come on again soon.  <\/p>\n<p>It seems like we lose power at least once or twice a year here.  When we lived in Plymouth, I don&#8217;t remember ever having a power failure.<\/p>\n<p>Note:  The laptop gave out moments after I wrote the last sentence.  The power didn&#8217;t come on until the next morning at 6:30 AM.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Pete<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My wife is out of town for work this week so it is just me and the dogs. I just finished watching the weather on KARE 11 TV and their chief meteorologist was showing the current doppler radar image. It showed a line of thunderstorms moving into our area. There was nothing severe predicted, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}